All poems Flashcards
(7 cards)
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The City Planners
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Stark, ironic imagery to expose the fragility of artificial control and emotional cost of suburban conformity
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The Planners
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Sharp and reflective critique of modern urban development and its cost to culture, memory, and individuality
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The Man With Night Sweats
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Honest and deeply moving elegy for the loss of vitality , freedom and control that illness brings
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Night Sweat
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Powerful confession poem showing the physic cost of genius and the loneliness of self-examination
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Rain
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Deeply introspective poem, exploring the emotional weight of nature and its mirroring of human experience
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The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument
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Explores the relationship between the mind, the soul and the limitations of language and self-expression
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